Independent Contractor Agreement

Independent Contractor Agreement

Company: [Your Name / Company], based at [Address] ("Company") Contractor: [Contractor Name], based at [Address] ("Contractor") Date: [Date]

1. The work

Contractor will perform the following services for Company (the "Services"):

• [Describe the work, e.g., "Front-end development for client projects as assigned"]
• [Deliverable or ongoing duty 2]

Specific tasks, deadlines, and deliverables may be assigned by email or project tool; those assignments are part of this agreement.

2. Payment

• Rate: $[Amount] per [hour / project / month].
• Contractor invoices [monthly / on completion]; Company pays within [14] days of a correct invoice.
• Contractor covers its own expenses unless Company approves an expense in writing first.
• Company will issue IRS Form 1099 as required. Contractor is responsible for its own taxes.

3. Independent contractor status

Contractor is an independent contractor, not an employee. Contractor controls how and where the work gets done, may work for others (subject to Sections 5 and 6), receives no benefits, and has no authority to sign anything or make promises on Company's behalf.

4. Ownership of work — the critical part

• All work product Contractor creates for Company under this agreement — code, designs, copy, documents, and anything else — is work made for hire and belongs to Company from the moment it's created.
• If any work product doesn't qualify as work made for hire, Contractor assigns all rights in it to Company, fully and forever, and will sign any documents needed to confirm that.
• Contractor keeps ownership of pre-existing tools and libraries it brings to the work, and grants Company a permanent, royalty-free license to use them as part of the deliverables. Contractor will list any such pre-existing materials here: [List or "None"].
• Contractor will not include anyone else's proprietary material (including code under restrictive licenses) in the deliverables without Company's written approval.

5. Confidentiality

Contractor will keep Company's non-public information — clients, pricing, processes, code, plans — confidential, use it only to perform the Services, and return or destroy it when the engagement ends. This obligation lasts [3] years after the agreement ends; trade secrets stay protected as long as the law protects them.